Gee: WVU to Establish Purpose Institute, Charting New Path for Innovation, Leadership in Higher Education
By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on October 24, 2021
- Kicked off a partnership with Brad and Alys Smith to create Ascend WV, to attract remote workers to the Mountain State.
- Launched a first-in-the-U.S. clinical trial at the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute using deep brain stimulation to combat opioid use disorder.
- Unveiled LUCAS, another first-in-the-U.S. fully mobile unit that will travel throughout West Virginia to provide lung cancer screening in rural areas, at WVU Medicine.
- Partnered with building trades and organizations to foster apprenticeship programs at WVU Potomac State College.
- Supported the Mountaineer Mathematics Master Teachers program to enhance middle school and high school math education in West Virginia.